1. These terms

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1. These terms set out important rights and obligations that are legally binding between you and Biocontacts.

2. By subscribing to and using the Websites and Services, you agree to these terms. Please read these terms carefully.

3. Biocontacts may update or amend these terms at any time, and such changes take effect at the time nominated by Biocontacts in its notice to you of such update or amendment which is likely to be (a) immediately, where the update or amendment is technical, administrative, immaterial, to your advantage or to comply with law; (b) a period of 30 days after such notice, in all other cases.

4. These terms contain bolded words which have the meaning given to them in the back of these terms.

 

2. What you are allowed to do

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1. You may use the Websites and Services in the way it is intended to be used and in compliance with all applicable laws as well as these terms, and any other documentation or guidelines posted by Biocontacts. This means that some functions are only available to you if you register for an account and if you pay a subscription fee.

2. You may create a link on another website to the Websites and Services, but it must not be a website that abuses, harasses, stalks, threatens or defames others, or a that is obscene, hateful or objectionable on race, ethnicity or other grounds or an association with which would otherwise bring Biocontacts into disrepute.

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3. What you must not do

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1. You must use the Websites and Services or any part of it only in the way it is intended to be used. The Websites and Services are intended to be used by technology transfer organisations and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies for the purpose of seeking a licensing or other partnering transaction. The Websites and Services may not be used without valid registration and subscription and may not be used to promote services without the express permission of Biocontacts. The Websites and Services may not be used in the provision of consulting services without the express permission of Biocontacts. You must not attempt to access functions other than that to which you are entitled to, as indicated by Biocontacts.

2. In particular, you must not:

   1. copy the Websites and Services or any part of it, including any software or part of it;

   2. create or attempt to create any other legal interests in the Websites and Services or your account, or use the Websites and Services to provide services to others that are the same as or similar to those provided by Biocontacts, whether or not they pay you for it;

   3. harm or attempt to harm the operation or use of the Websites and Services by others, including hacking, deleting, augmenting or altering them;

   4. attempt to or assist anyone to reverse engineer, translate, decompile, disassemble the source code or underlying components underlying the Websites and Services.

   5. use any spider, scraper, robots, data or image gatherer or extractor, algorithm, automated method to access, copy, obtain or monitor data on or through the Websites and Services.

   6. keep or use the software underlying the Websites and Services in any form other than  its intended executable or machine-readable format.

   7. use the Websites and Services in connection with the development of any software program, model, algorithm, or other generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, including, but not limited to, training or using any content available on or through the Websites and Services in connection with the development or operation of a machine learning or AI system (such as for training, fine tuning, or grounding the machine learning or AI system or as part of retrieval-augmented generation).

3. You must not, in your use of the Websites and Services, act or omit to act, in a manner that breaches:

   1. Any applicable Laws in relevant jurisdictions, including those governing privacy,  telemarketing, email and facsimile marketing and customer solicitation;

   2. Rights of others, including intellectual property rights and privacy rights.  

   3. These terms, as well as any other documentation or guidelines posted by Biocontacts that apply at the time of your use.

4. You must not, in your use of the Websites and Services, injure or offend others including:

   1. abusing, harassing, stalking, threatening or defaming others;

   2. sending or posting spam or other unwanted content;

   3. publishing content that is obscene, hateful or objectionable on race, ethnicity or other grounds;

   4. doing anything else that may bring Biocontacts into disrepute.

5. You must not rely on Biocontacts, the Websites and Services, or information on it – see further paragraph 7.

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4. What you must do

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1. You must take reasonable steps to ensure that your use of the Websites and Services does not install, transmit or materially contribute to the installation or transmission of viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content.

2. If you create an account with the Websites and Services, you must:

   1. take all reasonable steps to prevent unauthorised access to and through your account;

   2. give the account an appropriate name so that it is not misleading, unlawful or infringes on others’ rights;

   3. provide accurate, non-misleading information as required by Biocontacts; and

   4. update information in your account as soon as reasonably practicable if you continue to use the Websites and Services.

3. You may not share your account credentials or make your account available to anyone else and are responsible for all activities that occur under your account.

4. You must inform Biocontacts by sending an email to hello@biocontacts.com if you believe that:

   1. there has been unauthorised access to your account or there has otherwise been a breach of security that may result in unauthorised access to your account;

   2. anything on the Biocontacts website infringes anyone’s intellectual property rights or other rights.

5. If Biocontacts suspects that you have breached these terms, you must provide Biocontacts with information and access to verify such information as requested free of any charge.

6. If Biocontacts requests your assistance to defend its intellectual property rights or to defend itself against a claim by another, you must give Biocontacts all reasonable assistance.

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5. What you must pay for

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1. You must pay for Websites and Services before you are given access to them, as indicated by Biocontacts.

2. The following payment terms apply if you make an application to subscribe to our Services:

   1. Your application is an offer to Biocontacts which is only accepted by Biocontacts and legally binding on Biocontacts when your payment has been processed. Until accepted,  Biocontacts may reject an application in its absolute discretion.

   2. You warrant that you are entitled to purchase a subscription using the payment details you provide. If Biocontacts suspects that you are not, it may contact the issuing bank, any payment provider, law enforcement authorities or other third parties.

   3. If there is an incorrect statement on a price, Biocontacts is not obliged to provide you with a subscription at that price, and may by notice to you, cancel the subscription and refund you any money you have paid Biocontacts in full or you may pay the correct price.

   4. You are responsible for paying any taxes, levies and duties in relation to the services provided, in addition to the subscription fees.

   5. Biocontacts will not automatically renew your current subscription at the conclusion of your subscription period. You will need to resubscribe to have continued access to the Websites and Services following the initial or any subsequent subscription period.

   6. Biocontacts does not usually give refunds, but if it chooses to do so, it may credit that refund to the credit card or other payment method you used to submit payment or in any other way.

   7. Once your application is processed and accepted, you do not have any right to cancel your subscription or any part of it until the end of your then current subscription period and you are not entitled to a refund.

   8. Biocontacts may change the subscription prices from time to time. Any price changes will take effect on your next renewal. You may choose not to renew your subscription if you do not agree to the price changes.

3. Biocontacts will use reasonable endeavours to activate your access to the relevant subscription version once payment has been processed. If Biocontacts suspects you are in breach of these terms, including any failure to make payment for a subscription, or the provision of inaccurate or false registration information, Biocontacts may suspend the service to you and lock your account, and may delete your data and content 90 days after notice to you of its intention to make such a deletion.

 

6. What Biocontacts is allowed to do

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1. Biocontacts may provide information to others about you and your use of the Websites and Services in accordance with its privacy policy, which includes:

   1. where there are allegations that you have breached others’ rights in your use of the Websites and Services;

   2. providing statistical data for various purposes, including benchmarking, research, marketing, surveys, analysis, reports and studies, but Biocontacts will only use non-personally identifiable information you give in aggregate and blinded formats, that is data that does not identify, reference or imply an association with you.

2. Biocontacts may stop or restrict your access or use of the Websites and Services at any time and for any period of time, including without notifying you that it has done so, and may delete your information in doing so.

3. Biocontacts may change the Websites and Services at any time, including deleting or modifying content, functions and storage limits.

 

7. What Biocontacts is responsible or liable for

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1. The Websites and Services are provided “AS IS.” Except to the extent prohibited by law, Biocontacts and its affiliates and licensors make no warranties (express, implied, statutory or otherwise) with respect to the services, and quality, non-infringement, and quiet enjoyment, and any warranties arising out of any course of dealing or trade usage.

2. Biocontacts gives no warranty and makes no representation about any third party or their products or services and Biocontacts does not endorse, sponsor or recommend others even if they are listed on the Websites and Services, and Biocontacts should not be taken to partner or be associated with others, even if the Biocontacts website contains their trademarks or other references to them or links to or from their website.

3. Biocontacts is not responsible for the acts or omissions of others, including:

   1. the services provided by third parties which you may use in using the Websites and Services, including third party software, products, or browse feature;

   2. unauthorised access including to or through your account;

   3. hacking of, and other damage done to the Websites and Services.

4. Biocontacts is not responsible for any of your acts or omissions, including those based on the Websites and Services. This means:

   1. Biocontacts is not a party to any agreement that you might enter into with a third party client or service provider;

   2. Biocontacts is not acting as an agent, broker or advisor in connection with any agreements that may result from use of the Websites and Services.

   3. Biocontacts shall not be liable for any damages or costs of any kind that you may incur in connection with your use of the Websites and Services or any agreement you may enter into with a third party client or service provider.

5. Biocontacts is not responsible for giving you access to or facilitating your use of the Websites and Services. In particular, Biocontacts gives no warranty about the Websites and Services or your access to it, and the Websites and Services may:

   1. Contain content which Biocontacts does not own and has no right or interest in;

   2. Not suit or fit the purpose of your use of it or your other requirements;

   3. Be temporarily or permanently unavailable or may not be secure, reliable or complete;

   4. Have defects or errors, including ones that are not corrected;

   5. Contain or transmit viruses, worms, malware, Trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content;

   6. Not update content you publish on or through it within the timeframe you require.

6. Biocontacts is not responsible for things which are outside its reasonable control including act or omissions of its suppliers, political or monetary action by government and non-government actors, terrorism, the effects of other force majeure events such as war, invasion, hostilities, nationalisation, sanctions, strike, labour dispute, riot, crime, earthquakes, fires, lightning, storms, hurricane, floods, volcanic eruptions, failure of electricity, telephone or internet service.

7. In these terms, where it is stated that Biocontacts is not responsible for any act, omission, fact or circumstance, or may act in a certain way, that means that Biocontacts is not liable for such act, omission, fact or circumstance.

8. In any case, Biocontacts is not liable to the extent any claim is made for indirect, special, consequential or exemplary damages, any loss of data, use, profits or opportunity or business interruption, even if Biocontacts were specifically notified of the possibility of such damage.

9. If applicable laws prohibit or restrict Biocontacts from excluding its liability then, only to the extent such laws apply, Biocontacts’ liability is not excluded by these terms.

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8. What rights are there in the Websites and Services

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1. Biocontacts and its affiliates own the Biocontacts trademarks used on the Websites and Services, including the look and feel, such as page headers, custom graphics, button icons and scripts. You do not obtain any express or implied right or interest in these. You must not:

   1. use any of the Biocontacts trademarks or any trademark which is similar to or likely to be confused with that Biocontacts trademark as your own;

   2. use any Biocontacts trademarks or variations of it as a domain name or part of one, or as a metatag, keyword, or other type of programming code or data;

   3. copy or imitate the Websites and Services or any part of it;

   4. tarnish, disparage or reflect adversely on the Biocontacts trademarks;

   5. challenge Biocontacts’ right to such trademarks.

2. Intellectual property rights apply to content of the Websites and Services. Biocontacts and its affiliate own or have interests in such intellectual property rights. You do not obtain any express or implied right or interest in such intellectual property rights except for the right to use the Websites and Services in accordance with these terms.

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9. How long do these terms apply for

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1. These terms apply from your first use of the Websites and Services and cease upon the cancellation of your account, except that they will continue to apply to your past use of the Websites and Services.

2. If you breach these terms:

   1. you must stop using the Websites and Services;

   2. Biocontacts may make a claim against you, including a claim for injunctive relief especially where Biocontacts suspects you have breached its intellectual property rights and you agree that damages are not an adequate remedy in such a case.

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10. What happens if there is a dispute

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1. These terms are governed by and are to be construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore. The UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods do not apply to these terms.

2. You and Biocontacts both submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore.

3. Biocontacts may serve documents on you in any claim against you by emailing you at the last email address you provided and by registered post to the address you last provided or in any other way permitted by law.

4. If you have a claim against Biocontacts, you must not commence proceedings in any court without first:

   1. giving Biocontacts notice of your claim including reasonable details of the claim by emailing Biocontacts via hello@biocontacts.com;

   2. negotiating in good faith with Biocontacts about your claim; and

   3. attempting to resolve any dispute on the claim within 60 days of notice of your claim.

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11. Other terms

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1. Business use: If you are accessing this site on behalf of a business or as part of your employment, you warrant that you have authority to agree to these terms on behalf of the entity conducting the business and that these terms constitute a legal, valid and binding obligation enforceable against that entity.

2. Individual use: If you are accessing this site for personal use, you warrant that you are at least 13 years old.

3. Entire agreement: These terms contain the entire agreement between us in relation to your use of the Websites and Services. Any other prior document, representation or communication between us does not form part of our agreement.

4. Amendment: These terms may only be amended by Biocontacts as set out in paragraph 1.3 or by written agreement signed by both of us.

5. Waiver: These terms or any breach of them may only be waived by written notice signed by the party waiving its rights and any such waiver is only in relation to that specific instance unless expressed otherwise. 

6. Assignment: You cannot assign any rights you have in these terms to another. Biocontacts may assign its rights or novate its rights and obligations under these terms to any of its affiliates or to a person who acquires the rights to the Websites and Services or any of their affiliates.

7. Indemnity: You must, to the extent permitted by law, indemnify and hold harmless Biocontacts and its affiliates, and our personnel, from and against any costs, losses, liabilities, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) from third party claims arising out of or relating to your use of the Websites and Services or any violation of these terms.

8. Notice: Notice to a party is only taken to be given if sent by email. Notice is taken to be given on the business day after the day on which the email is sent. Notice to Biocontacts by email is only taken to be given if sent to hello@biocontacts.com and headed “Terms – Legal Notice”. Notice to you by email is taken to be given if sent to you at the email address you last give Biocontacts. Each party may, in addition to giving notice by email, also send notice by registered post.

9. Invalidity or unenforceability: If any part of these terms are invalid or unenforceable, that part shall be excluded from these terms, or if essential to these terms, interpreted so as to avoid the invalidity or unenforceability. In any case, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the rest of these terms.

10. Interpretation: These terms are not to be construed in favour or against either of us but are to be construed in accordance with the fair meaning of its language.

 

12. Definitions and interpretation

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1. Definitions
    

Affiliate of a person means any person that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with that first mentioned person, where “control” means (a) to possess, directly or indirectly, the power to direct the management or policies of a person, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract relating to voting rights or corporate governance or otherwise, or (b) to own, directly or indirectly, fifty per cent or more of the outstanding voting securities or other ownership interest of such person.
 

Biocontacts means BIOCONTACTS INTERNATIONAL PTE. LTD., a company registered under the laws of Singapore with registration number (UEN: 202503806W);
 

Biocontacts trademarks means all registered and unregistered trademarks used by  Biocontacts or any of its affiliates.
 

Challenge means challenge or contest in any legal action or otherwise or assist or encourage any other person to do so.
 

Claim means a claim whether or not the subject of legal proceedings and includes demands, action, suit, litigation, proceedings, investigations and regulatory action, and cross-claims.
 

Content means images, graphics, text, audio files, computer software and other content, including the selection and arrangement of such content.
 

Copy means to copy or reproduce including:

• by framing, downloading, emailing, transmitting, republishing, displaying or performing;

• electronically or in physical form,

• through enhancements, translations, adaptations, derivative works and works with modifications.

Entity means company, trustee, partner, individual or any other entity recognised under law as having legal capacity.
 

Intellectual property right means each of copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, confidential information and other rights of a similar nature.
 

Law means all law including legislation, regulations, binding court rulings and binding government agency rulings.
 

Legal interest means any interest that is recognised by applicable Laws, including licences, sub-licences, transfers, sales, leases, time shares, encumbrances, mortgages and other security interests.
 

Websites and Services means Biocontacts’ database, the collection of webpages including those under the domain name www.biocontats.com maintained by Biocontacts or any of its affiliates, and other services, along with any associated software applications and websites.
 

These terms means this “Terms and Conditions” document, as may be amended, supplemented, or modified from time to time.
 

Trademarks means all trade names, trademarks, logos, service marks, domain name or other indications of origin, whether registered or not, and includes those enforceable under common law.
 

You means the user of the Websites and Services:

• Individual: If you access the Websites and Services for use of your business which you conduct in your individual capacity, “you” means the individual accessing the website;

• Business entity: If you access the Websites and Services on behalf of a business or as part of your employment, “you” means the entity which conducts the business.​​

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1. Interpretation

   1. A reference to a person includes a reference to any entity and to its successors in title and any of its permitted assigns;

   2. Use of the words ‘for example’ or ‘include’ are not words of limitation;

   3. Other parts of speech and grammatical forms of a word or phrase defined in these have a corresponding meaning to that given in the definition section.

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Terms and Conditions - Revision 1 - 15 March 2025.